{"product_id":"broken-road-from-the-iron-gates-to-mount-athos-1","title":"Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBroken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePatrick Leigh Fermor\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781590177549\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York Review Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e392\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick (\"Paddy\") Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople, a trip that took him almost a year. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in \u003ci\u003eA Time of Gifts \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBetween the Woods and the Water\u003c\/i\u003e, two books now celebrated as among the most vivid, absorbing, and beautifully written travel books of all time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Broken Road \u003c\/i\u003eis the long-awaited account of the final leg of his youthful adventure that Leigh Fermor promised but was unable to finish before his death in 2011. Assembled from Leigh Fermor's manuscripts by his prizewinning biographer Artemis Cooper and the travel writer Colin Thubron, this is perhaps the most personal of all Leigh Fermor's books, catching up with young Paddy in the fall of 1934 and following him through Bulgaria and Romania to the coast of the Black Sea. Days and nights on the road, spectacular landscapes and uncanny cities, friendships lost and found, leading the high life in Bucharest or camping out with fishermen and shepherds-in the \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Road\u003c\/i\u003e such incidents and escapades are described with all the linguistic bravura, odd and astonishing learning, and overflowing exuberance that Leigh Fermor is famous for, but also with a melancholy awareness of the passage of time, especially when he meditates on the scarred history of the Balkans or on his troubled relations with his father. The book ends, perfectly, with Paddy's arrival in Greece, the country he would fall in love with and fight for. Throughout it we can still hear the ringing voice of an irrepressible young man embarking on a life of adventure.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos | Patrick Leigh Fermor | Hardcover | 9781590177549 | Used: Like New | Travelogues 1659862 (temp: 22)","offer_id":48927923667096,"sku":"1659862","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos | Patrick Leigh Fermor | Hardcover | 9781590177549 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1756460","offer_id":49146874658968,"sku":"1756460","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61IH_Lp08GL.jpg?v=1777059187","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/broken-road-from-the-iron-gates-to-mount-athos-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}